Guetzli JPEG encoder

Re:Guetzli JPEG encoder by muhblah on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:43AM (#13380772)

I'm pretty sure this encoder is written by a Google employee based in Zurich, like me (but I don't work for Google) ;D

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Re:Guetzli JPEG encoder by piquadrat on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:53AM (#13380824)

Also, it's in line with Brotli[1] and Gipfeli[2], other compression libraries/formats from Google bearing names of Swiss pastries.

[1]: https://github.com/google/brotli

[2]: https://github.com/google/gipfeli

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Re:Guetzli JPEG encoder by youngtaff on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:12AM (#13381167)

Someone predicted this is Sept 2015

"The names of Google compressors sound so funny: Zopfli, Brotli, ... the next ones will be called Guetzli, Brunsli, Kägi-Fretli, Schoggli oder Läckerli "

http://encode.ru/threads/2313-Brotli?p=44950&viewfull=1#post...

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Re:Guetzli JPEG encoder by d33 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:45AM (#13380782)

Well the list of contributors is no secret:

https://github.com/google/guetzli/graphs/contributors

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